Southwest Airlines plans to roll out first new employee uniforms in 20 years, other changes

[TexasTowelie]

Southwest Airlines’ flight attendant Sandra Hall (at right) wears a proposed new uniform and flight attendant Joan Mast (at left) wears her first hot-pants uniform from the early 1980s. (Sheryl Jean/The Dallas Morning News)

Southwest Airlines is in the midst of rolling some changes, including uniforms for employees and a new inflight drinks menu for passengers, as it continues to grow.

The company’s last complete uniform redo was 20 years ago, Teresa Laraba, Southwest’s senior vice president of customers said today at a company event in Houston.

“I remember because I was wearing it,” Laraba said. The estimate cost of replacing all employee uniforms is about $23 million, she said.

However, Laraba noted that the new uniform cost covers 80 percent of the Dallas-based airline’s workforce. She thinks the new look will last 10 years.

Read more: http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/southwest-airlines-plans-to-roll-out-first-new-employee-uniforms-in-20-years-other-changes.html/

[font color=330099]I imagine those uniforms were beginning to smell bad if they were wearing them for 20 years.[/font]

[NV Whino]

1. No pics?

[TexasTowelie]

2. Oops,

I added a photo and the link to the OP.

[NV Whino]

3. Hmm, nice, but I really don't in dresses are impractical

Maybe they'll come up with a pants version for the women. One assumes they already have one for the men.

And, yikes, hot pants? Guess I stopped flying on a regular basis before that.

[TexasTowelie]

4. You have to remember that shorts for

both men and women were the style during the 80s. I don't really see why wearing a dress would be impractical for a female flight attendant in relation to their job duties though.

[NV Whino]

6. Um, yeah. It was the memory that was freaking me out.

And try reaching, bending, stretching in a dress. I suspect they'll have a variety of applications.

[enlightenment]

5. No trousers?

Why the heck do they put female flight attendants in skirts? Their job is, ultimately, to protect the passengers on the aircraft. Skirts and heels don't help evacuate passengers from the plane.

Even if they don't have an emergency, they spend their time stooping, bending, stretching, twisting - all things that are much easier and more comfortably accomplished wearing trousers.

[DhhD]

7. Too cheeky for 10 years.

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=Hot+Pants+From+the+70%27s&fr=sfp


Adding:

https://www.google.com/search?q=dress+of+pretty+woman&biw=1010&bih=605&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CDwQsARqFQoTCL3thYLVtcgCFUwyiAod1S8NLg